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Barn of David Leavitt, Esq., Great Barrington. 



This building is admitted to be one of the largest and best 

 adapted to the purposes for which it is intended of any in the 

 country, and in point of adaptation and convenience of arrange- 

 ment is, perhaps, not excelled in the world. It is two hundred 

 feet long and forty feet wide ; the whole height is about one 

 hundred and twenty feet. 



As will be seen by reference to the engraving which accom- 

 panies this statement, it has three stories accessible with teams 

 at either end. The manure vault is in the lower story, or 

 basement; the second is mainly devoted to stabling; the third 

 to the storage of hay, grain, machinery, etc. 



The site of this building is as novel as it is convenient. The 

 building spans a ravine two hundred feet in width and thirty 

 feet in depth, and forms the wall of a dam bridling a fine stream 

 which runs through the ravine, and elevating the water so that 

 it is applied to a thirty-six horse-power water wheel, twenty- 

 two feet in diameter, which is placed in the basement of the 

 building, and affords ample power for wood and saw-mill saws, 

 a planing mill, (one of Woodworth's largest,) a lathe, grind- 

 stones, and feed mill, a corn sheller, (Reading's patent,) which 

 shells and cleans and bags five hundred bushels per diem, and a 

 thresher, cleaner, and elevator of the same capacity as the corn 

 sheller. 



The thresher used is Zimmerman & Co.'s, made in Charles- 

 town, Ya. The threshing and straw cutting is done simul- 

 taneously. 



The feed mill used is a self-sharpening iron mill, capable of 

 grinding fifteen bushels per hour, patented January, 1855, and 

 made by A. Felton, Troy, N. Y. The hay is pitched from the 

 vehicles to the mows by the same power, by which arrangement 

 four tons may be unloaded in one minute. A line shaft is ex- 

 tended into an adjacent arched dairy cellar, twenty by seventy- 

 eight, in which the churning is also done by water power. 



The minuteness of the description of the various machines 

 used at this model farmstead is for the benefit of such of our 

 readers as may require similar ones, as those described have 



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